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World’s climate warming faster than feared, scientists say

As the planet marked its fourth hottest year on record, a study published in the journal Nature found increasing levels of carbon dioxide will lead to thinner ocean clouds and reduce their cooling impact, causing temperature rises of at least 5.6F (3C) over the course of the century.

The team of scientists said the findings show some climate models have been too “optimistic” and previous estimates of a minimum temperature rise of only 2.7F (1.5C) could now be discounted. The optimistic models did not properly assess the impact of water evaporation, which sometimes rises only a short distance into the atmosphere and causes updraughts that reduce cloud cover, the study found.

”These models have been predicting a lower climate sensitivity but we believe they’re incorrect,” Professor Steven Sherwood, from the University of New South Wales, told The Sydney Morning Herald.

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Is there any evidence that having the 4th warmest year on record matters? Our records of actual temperatures start sometime around the mid- to late-19th century. Let’s call it 150 years just for ease of calculations.

According to modern scientific consensus — and goodness knows, we always have to believe that — the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years, give or take. That means that we’ve been keeping temperature records for approximately 0.000003% of the time the Earth has existed.

See how deeply personal psychology plays into this when the liberals are saying it’s going to get hotter and it’s frightening, and the conservatives are saying we don’t know, and even if it does get warmer it might be OK.

It’s like appointing justices to the Supreme Court. They’re supposed to be so wise, but then when a big issue comes before them, you can predict exactly who’s going to vote which way, and it always comes down to, liberals this way, conservatives that.

These AGW a$$holes never give up, do they? Of course, they will do or say anything to get their next grant or impose a new tax on the great unwashed. Notice, they always refer to their models. They will keep their faulty computer programs, without question or testing, as long as their models can come up with the next money infusion. Of course it is the model/program’s fault if they are wrong. The models and programs are only as reliable as the programming. GI-GO. Maybe they need to spend some time with their fellow liars and charlatans on the ice in the far south Pacific.

According to modern scientific consensus — and goodness knows, we always have to believe that — the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years, give or take. That means that we’ve been keeping temperature records for approximately 0.000003% of the time the Earth has existed.

Sure, I’d call that definitive.

Shump on January 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM

Come on, they have a really old tree ring that tells them what the temperature was to a millisecond thousands upon thousands of decades ago and is valid for accurate temperature prediction for at least another 7 or 8 hundred years. They are not dumb you know. They would never leave something like climate prediction to rest solely on temperature readings from the last 150 years.

You mean there were 3 other “warmest year evah’s”?
redzap on January 2, 2014 at 11:41 AM

It was the fourth warmest which means the other three were warmer. I wonder how much and when. I would have thought that the warmest would have caused all kinds of problems from super storms and melting ice/glaciers.

Is there any evidence that this isn’t the 4th warmest year on record?
libfreeordie on January 2, 2014 at 10:21 AM

Is there any evidence that having the 4th warmest year on record matters? Our records of actual temperatures start sometime around the mid- to late-19th century. Let’s call it 150 years (snip)
the Earth is approximately 4.5 billion years, give or take.
Shump on January 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM

Liberals think their weak pathetic human lives matter…hahaha
So they do stupid things like try to chronicle ‘the climate’ and extrapolate the future for dubious agendas surrounding their pathetic existence. As if it matters. hahahaha 😀

In the bigger scheme of things human life is just a obscure footnote.

Liberals are hand-wringing and soiling themselves over a mere droplet of time, in a vast ocean of events that have been going on for eons and will continue for unimaginable eons.

Pathetic, self-centered, liberals will have disappeared into the mist, to be forever forgotten, in a infinitesimally minuscule fraction of time as compared to the eternity that will continue…..as also probably will be the entire “human experiment”
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